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Day December 6, 2016

One question we occasionally get on the phenomenal #perl6 IRC channel is about Perl 6 books. It turns out, some folks don’t want to learn just from tutorials, blog posts and docs. Last year, we didn’t have any good answers to that question.

A few months ago, there seemed to be a flurry of such questions, and at the same time, rumours about new book projects started to spread.

If I remember correctly, the first rumour was when Laurent Rosenfeld contacted me in June, asking for feedback on a manuscript. He had translated a good 200 pages of the Think Python book to Perl 6. This is primarily a book teaching programming to beginners. Later I was happy to hear that a major publisher has accepted the manuscript. The manuscript is now finished, and under review. So I guess we’ll see e-book and print versions of this book in due time.

Then brian d foy opened a kickstarter to raise funds for a “Learning Perl 6” book. By the time this is published, the kickstarter project should still be open, so I warmly encourage you to support this. Having a book by a prominent member of the Perl 5 community, and author of several good Perl books would surely be a boon for the Perl 6 community.

In summary, we have one book starring Perl 6 content, one in progress with the manuscript in stage “feature complete”, one in the kick-starting phase which you can support, and a fourth being written right now, with parts being pre-published in the form of blog posts.